Berlin launches first city web domain name

theguardian.com ^ | 18 March 2014 | Agence France-Press

[Berlin_Freeper]

Berlin has become the world's first city to have its own internet domain name.

Companies and individuals in the German capital can now request web addresses ending in .berlin as alternatives to the more traditional options of .com, .org or the German national suffix .de.

Addresses will be granted on a first come, first served basis and will each cost about €50 (£42) a year.

[MeshugeMikey]

One can only imagine what the future of geo political national,,state or municipality Domain Names will “look like”

lets say that obie moves to California on retirement

imagine a barackobama.lalaland website

[Don Corleone]

lets say that obie moves to California on retirement imagine a barackobama.lalaland website

or a kalakaluahikilulahawaii.hula one.

[ClearCase_guy]

City states make more sense than nations. I think nationalism is on the way out, and I think the global debt is what will kill the concept. Small is Better.

[chajin]

I want www.Iamajellydonut.berlin

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

.berlin is only a domain suffix.

Many, many cities have their own domain names. They end in a suffix of .gov.

newyork.gov is an example. Changing the suffix changes the domain name.

So Berlin is not the first city to have its own domain name.

[Berlin_Freeper]

So Berlin is the first city to have its own domain suffix.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So Berlin is the first city to have its own domain suffix.

Das ist besser!

=;^)